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Ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics' and 'Causal Powers'

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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

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Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference

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A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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'Water' is two-dimensionally inconstant, with different intensions in different worlds [Chalmers, by Sider]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / a. Contextual meaning

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We say there is 'no alternative' in all sorts of contexts, and there are many different grounds for it [Harré/Madden]